In addition to medical, hospital, and pharmaceutical care, self-employed members receive benefits such as workers’ compensation insurance; financial support in the event of disability or death; retirement, old-age, and severance pay; as well as access to childcare and social benefits
Section 219 of Los Mineros have been on strike since April 2024, while the company has been accused of controlling and favouring a competing union FRENTE.
All the teachers’ demands are justified, and repeal of the ISSSTE would not just benefit all public sector workers, but all workers, says teacher Ángel Custodio Guadarrama in this interview.
The Morena government is refusing to fulfill its campaign promise to repeal Calderón’s 2007 ISSSTE Law and is seeking to confine the issue of pensions, handed over to private banks under the predatory Afore model, to a weak and very provisional scheme.
The national strike, initiated by the CNTE but joined by other public workers, is not a mobilization of workers against a political party, but against the neoliberal model that is still unfortunately in good health.
It’s the highest point in four decades, but less than the mid-70s when workers wages account for 40.6% of GDP, prior to a period of catastrophic neoliberalism.
The document presented to the CNTE includes a declaration in which the federal government expresses its respect for their organization and methods of struggle.
Teachers’ pensions provide private banks massive profits in the form of commissions, they fund the investments the banks make in their own businesses, and the profits the banks make from usurious activity with other people’s money. What public benefits would there be if the system was de-privatized?
Mexican teachers face the enormous power of finance capital and a neoliberal retirement system, owned by major banks, the true right wing of this country, which the government refuses to touch with even a single tax.
While AMLO repealed some of the worst elements of neoliberal teaching reform, underlying demands have not been fully addressed & worse, certain sectors close to Morena have replicated the narrative of the past, presenting the CNTE as an irrational and intransigent pressure group.